15th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 5 - 7, 2007

INDUSTRY ATTENDEES

 

Tom Edsall SVP, CTO DSSTG Cisco Systems Inc. As Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Datacenter, Switching, and Security Technology Group at Cisco. Tom Edsall is the chief architect of the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking platform, which was distinguished in 2003 with a Network World "World-Class Award." He holds 59 patents (28 issued, 31 pending) all in the networking and storage networking fields. Most recently, Edsall was General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit responsible for the MDS product line. Before that he was CTO and co-founder of Andiamo Systems, Inc., a storage networking start-up acquired by Cisco. Prior to Andiamo, he was Vice President of Engineering at Cisco and one of the system architects responsible for the Cisco Catalyst 5000 and 6000 product lines. Prior to Cisco, he was a co-founder and a member of the senior engineering management team at Crescendo. Edsall holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Pere Monclus Technical Leader Cisco Systems Inc.

Hugo Patterson Chief Architect Data Domain Hugo Patterson joined Data Domain in March 2002 and has served as our Chief Architect since May 2002. From November 1999 to March 2002, Dr. Patterson was the lead architect for data availability and management at Network Appliance Inc., a provider of storage and data management solutions. Dr. Patterson holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a charter student in the PDL.

Patrick Eaton Principal Software Engineer EMC

Sorin Faibish Senior Technologist EMC Research interests: pNFS and storage systems self-* related topics.

Jeff Stewart Senior Software Engineer Google BS ECE CMU '95, MS INI CMU '96. Brief highlights: MTS, Netscape, worked on next generation CORBA_based application server/web server framework Software Engineer, Remarq Communities, build a large scale messaging system Software Engineer, Good Technology, Inc., built a Blackberry-like messaging platform Senior Software Engineer, Google Inc., helped build Gmail, and more recently worked on network diagnostics. Research interests: Failure Data Analysis, Problem Analysis, Survivable Storage, SELF-storage

Christopher Hoover Hewlett Packard Labs I am a senior researcher in the Storage Systems Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. I am a CMU alumnus (BS Computer Engineer, 1990).

John Wilkes HP Fellow Hewlett Packard Labs

Jay Wylie Hewlett Packard Labs Jay J. Wylie is a Research Scientist in the Storage Systems Department at Hewlett-Packard Labs. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and 2000 respectively. He received his B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1998. Jay's interests are distributed systems, storage systems, consistency protocols, (Byzantine) fault-tolerance, dependability, and erasure codes. Research interests: Storage. ;)

Akira Fujibayashi Senior Researcher Hitachi, Ltd. I joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1994. I have worked on researching and developing new technologies for designing the enterprise class large scale disk storage system. Research interests: Storage System:Large Scale, Self-* Failure prediction

Norifumi Nishikawa Senior Researcher Hitachi, Ltd.

Takashi Oeda Senior Director & Lab. Mgr Hitachi America Ltd.

KK Rao Distinguished Engineer IBM KK Rao is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Senior Manager of Advanced Storage Subsystems. His department, a part of Storage Systems Research at Almaden, works on areas such as virtualization, server/storage synergy, scalability, reliability and data integrity. Rao has been with IBM Research at Almaden since October 2002 and has worked on reference storage, business continuity, advanced RAID algorithms, scale-out storage systems, distributed storage and deferred maintenance. Previously, he was the CTO of Mylex Storage Systems, a former IBM subsidiary building midrange storage subsystems and controllers. He has a BSEE and MSEE from IIT Bombay. Research interests: Scalable and distributed storage systems

Prasenjit Sarkar Research Staff Member IBM

Julian Satran IBM, Haifa Research Laboratory Julian Satran graduated (MSc EE) in 1962 from the Polytechnic Institute Bucharest, Romania. After graduation Julian has held senior positions in industry and Academia in Romania. Julian has immigrated to Israel in 1979 and has held senior position in industrial R&D in Israel. Since 1987 Julian is with the IBM Research Laboratory at Haifa. Currently he is Distinguished Engineer and his areas of interest span system and subsystem architecture, networking, development and operating environments. He lead several pioneering research projects at the lab in clustering, file system structure (and object storage), I/O and networking convergence (iSCSI), future, more rational and scalable, I/O subsystems , has driven an industry-wide effort to standardize iSCSI and is now driving an effort to standardize Object Storage. Julian is also frequently teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses (Advanced OS, OS, Advanced Storage) at the Haifa University and the Technion. Julian is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Steve Schlosser Research Scientist ntel Research Pgh. I joined Intel Research Pittsburgh in July of 2004, after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University. As a graduate student, I worked for the Parallel Data Laboratory, where my advisor was Greg Ganger. While at Carnegie Mellon, I worked on the Fates Database Storage project, the goal of which is to improve storage performance for workloads that access multidimensional datasets. My dissertation work was on the impact of alternative storage device technologies on computer systems, specifically those based on MEMS. My undergraduate studies were also at Carnegie Mellon, so I've been in Pittsburgh for quite some time, now. I am originally from sunny Columbus, Ohio.

Jason Campbell Senior Staff Research Scientist Jason Campbell is a research scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh, principal investigator on the Dynamic Physical Rendering project, and a champion of Intel Research's just-launched Big Data research theme. His research interests include machine autonomy, distributed systems, self-reconfigurable modular robots, sensor networks, embedded computing, and computer vision. Jason previously served as a senior executive in several startup companies, including as Chief Technical Officer of Zack Systems and as VP Technology of Strategic Economic Decisions, Inc. He has worked as a manger, programmer, and consultant with a wide variety of firms in the fields of networking hardware, finance, economic forecasting, commercial printing, and manufacturing. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Research interests: DISC/Big Data

John Bent Los Alamos National Lab After receiving a PhD in computer science in 2005 at the University of Wisconsin, John has been working ever since at Los Alamos labs on file systems, storage, and I/O.

Gary Grider Group Leader Los Alamos National Lab Group Leader HPC Systems, Integration LANL HEC FSIO National Coordinator, DOD NSA ASCS FSIO Leader, DOE NNSA FSIO Leader, LANL Director of Institute for Reliable High Performance Information Technology, LANL Director of Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management, LANL PI for DOE SciDAC Petascale Data Storage Institute Research interests: Large scale parallel file systems, reliability, autonomics, quality of service, metadata, small unaligned I/O, etc.

James Nunez Los Alamos National Lab Team Leader James is currently the co-team leader for the Networking and Scalable I/O Team in the High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Integration Group at Los Alamos National Lab. He is involved in and supports all aspects of File Systems and Storage for use by the Laboratory, including the ASCI File System Path forward contract to create the high scalable global parallel file system based on secure object device technology and the ASCI alliances with Universities to develop the first reference implementation of NFS version 4, develop middleware solutions for small unaligned writes and investigate improved scalable metadata/security. He has worked in the High End Computing Interagency Working Group HEC/IWG on coordination of interagency I/O funding. At Los Alamos, James is concerned with evaluating and benchmarking HPC file systems, I/O middleware solutions, and understanding the I/O interface and application of new storage innovations to real science applications. Prior to coming to Los Alamos, James was a Research Scientist with ERIM International; a leader in cutting-edge technologies related to imaging systems, information extraction and knowledge generation and dissemination. James main duties included software implementation and optimization of Automatic Target Cueing and Recognition algorithms. Research interests: Failure data analysis, metadata/large directory work, etc.

Jerry Fredin Storage Systems Architect LSI

Ken Gibson Advanced Development LSI

Tom Rodeheffer Principal Researcher Microsoft Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Tom Rodeheffer spent eighteen years at Digital's, then Compaq's, then Hewlett-Packard's Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, California. As a researcher and then senior researcher, Tom investigated networks, protocols, distributed systems, hardware-software interfaces, and self-organizing systems. For approximately the final two years, Tom was the assistant manager of SRC. Tom received his B.S. from Ohio State in 1976 and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon in 1985. Tom's research centers on the design and operation of systems of communicating processes, especially when combinations of hardware and software are involved. The essential research problem is how to arrange such a system so as to obtain a desired collective behavior, and Tom is most interested in the design of systems that self-organize and self-manage without human intervention. Specifying a desired behavior is often a problem in itself. Tom likes the practical approach of evaluating designs by constructing models or, where possible, working prototypes. This approach often uncovers additional problems that were not appreciated in the original design.

Bruce Worthington Principal Software Dev Lead Microsoft I've been working at Microsoft on Windows Server Performance for 9 years, preceeded by 3 years of IBM OS Performance work. I received my PhD in 1995 from University of Michigan, working alongside Greg Ganger (and surviving to tell about it). My current foci include big iron scalability, storage SW/HW performance, server/datacenter power efficiency, and the use of nonvolatile memory in server systems. Research interests: It's all good. :-)

David Ford Director of Advanced Development Network Appliance

Garth Goodson Member of Technical Staff Network Appliance Garth Goodson is a researcher at Network Appliance. He has worked on Parallel NFS (pNFS), an extension to provide parallelism within the NFSv4 protocol. He has also explored the use of virtual machines to provide software fault isolation. Prior to joining Network Appliance in 2004, Garth received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical and Computer Engineering under Gregory Ganger.

Jiri Schindler Member of Research StaffNetwork Appliance

Thierry Cruanes Manager Parallel Execution Group Oracle

Jim Williams Storage Technologist Oracle

Patrick Chu Research Staff Member Seagate

Erik Riedel Director Seagate

David Seekins Software Staff Engineer Seagate

Chris Naddeo Product Mgmt Lead, Clustered Storage Group Symantec Employed at Veritas/Symantec for over 8 years. My current tole is to set product direction and strategy for our newly formed clustered storage group. Research interests: Geographically distribued Object based filesystems. Most of the areas are very applicable to my work

Darren Shou Senior Manager of University Research Symantec

Orran Krieger VMware My research interests are in the areas of parallel and distributed systems, operating systems, file systems, and computer architecture. Before joining VMWare, I worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on the K42 operating system project. Before IBM, I worked on the Tornado operating system, and the NUMAchine multiprocessor with the parallel systems group at the University of Toronto.

Satyam Vaghani Senior Staff Engineer VMware, Inc. Satyam Vaghani is a VMware engineer whose primary responsibility is ESX Server storage. He architected and implemented major parts of the ESX Server 2.x and later version storage subsystems including SAN support, clustered file system (VMFS), disaster recovery and backup for virtual machines. Satyam holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. Research interests: Datacenter storage arrays and networks, file systems, high speed interconnects, virtual machines